Senior Service Mesh Engineer - Remote (Istio/Linkerd)

Bright Vision Technologies; Naperville (IL); Remote; USD 95,000 - 115,000; Full time

Job summary

Bright Vision Technologies is seeking a Service Mesh Engineer to design, deploy, and operate mesh platforms (Istio and Linkerd) across our Kubernetes estate. The role emphasizes platform engineering, mesh adoption, mTLS, and traffic policies to secure and optimize service-to-service communication.

The ideal candidate has production experience with Istio/Linkerd, strong Envoy knowledge, and proven collaboration skills to enable application teams while avoiding unnecessary complexity.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related field.
• 7+ years of experience in platform engineering, SRE, or networking.
• Hands‑on experience operating Istio or Linkerd in production.
• Strong understanding of Envoy proxy internals and configuration.
• Deep Kubernetes expertise including networking, CNI, and ingress.
• Strong understanding of mTLS, PKI, and certificate lifecycle management.
• Experience with distributed tracing and observability for mesh traffic.
• Proficiency in Go or Python for tooling and automation.
• Strong troubleshooting skills across networking, application, and control plane layers.

Responsibilities

• Design, deploy, and operate service mesh platforms (Istio/Linkerd) across Kubernetes.
• Focus on mesh adoption, mTLS, traffic policy, and security.
• Collaborate with application teams to maximize mesh benefits with minimal complexity.
• Apply platform engineering discipline and pragmatic adoption strategies.

Skills

Platform engineering

SRE

Networking

Go

Python

Troubleshooting

Communication

Collaboration

Observability

Security

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

Istio

Linkerd

Envoy

Kubernetes

CNI

SPIFFE/SPIRE

eBPF

Job description

Bright Vision Technologies is seeking a Service Mesh Engineer to design, deploy, and operate mesh platforms (Istio and Linkerd) across our Kubernetes estate. The role emphasizes platform engineering, mesh adoption, mTLS, and traffic policies to secure and optimize service-to-service communication.

The ideal candidate has production experience with Istio/Linkerd, strong Envoy knowledge, and proven collaboration skills to enable application teams while avoiding unnecessary complexity.